The Consequences of Checking Too Often
Maybe I’ll turn off Google Notifier and push Mail’s schedule back to checking for new mail “every hour.”
BBC News highlights a study that finds that incessant email/txt/message checking causes people to suffer as if they’ve pulled an all-nighter. An IQ test showed the distractees losing an average of 10-points - “more than twice that found in studies of the impact of smoking marijuana.”
From plastcbag
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